Archive for May, 2006
Insecure communication
I saw a link today to an article that describes a “secure phone”. In the article they state: First off, you need two phones. When you place a secure call (you can also place regular calls), they perform a 1024-bit Diffie-Hellman shared secret exchange, to generate a secret 128-bit key. This process takes between 10 to [...]
NSA “Wiretapping”
Do I think the NSA “wiretapping” is legal? Probably. Should it be legal? Maybe… Maybe not. Regardless of your opinion of the ethical/legal/moral implications of the “wiretapping”, you should agree with me that the response we’ve seen in the media and the outrage we’ve heard is ridiculous. For one thing, it isn’t wiretapping. NSA simply [...]
Comparison: Apple vs. Nintendo
Apple: Nintendo: Market Share: About 3-4% of the PC market[1], but a whopping ~77.9% of the portable music player market[2] Third with about 17.9% of the U.S. game console market[3], but a combined 64.5% of the portable game player market[4] Product lineup: Has a smaller variety of software than its Windows competitors; much of this [...]